Monthly Archives: October 2004
Banking on Data Replication
In South Florida, hurricanes are an expected and predictable emergency. Homeowners shutter windows, companies back up data and send it off-site before a storm...
IBM Pushes IT Automation
Three years after launching its autonomic computing effort, IBM says customers are reaping the benefits of IT automation, but the real promise of the...
On Watch for Intelligent Objects
From a long tradition of unfortunate code names comes "Paparazzi," the family name announced last week for a line of wireless data devices from...
Avoiding the Latest Pop-Up Whacks
In the third and easily the worst "Godfather" movie, Michael Corleone utters the oft-repeated quote, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull...
SAS Takes On Sarb-Ox Compliance
SAS Institute Inc. is making its strongest push yet to capture mind share of chief financial officers under pressure to meet increasingly stringent regulatory...
Gartner Sets the Stage
Against a backdrop of industry-luminary keynote speakers, vendors large and small at Gartner Inc.s Symposium/ITxpo last week used the stage to tout new and...
VMware Turns on Server Savings at Moen
Faced with a rapid proliferation of Windows servers as a result of business growth, Moen Inc. tapped virtualization software from VMware Inc. to control...
Help Desk Goes LiveTime
Prescott, Ariz.—population 38,000—is in one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, and the city governments IT needs have increased with its size.
The IT...
PLM Takes on Design Duties
New capabilities by Product Lifecycle Management software developers are driving design deeper into the fold.
Aras Corp., a PLM software developer in Lawrence, Mass., announced...
POPFile Ably Sorts E-Mail
It seems impossible, but right now Im experiencing feelings of gratitude toward the legions of spammers and mailer bots that ensure that our in-boxes...